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It the simple "halo effect", where good looking/attractive people are attributed other positive qualities that they don't really posses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect

Plus, given some limited information about a person, we tend to fill it with "wishful thinking" and assign all kind of positive attributes that don't really exists.

On street parlance this is called "putting the pussy on a pedestal". This is a very common thing that most men (and/or women) do when they are young.




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